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What is the difference between Chinese medicine pharmacology and pharmacology

Traditionally, the classification about drugs is basically traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, but now there are some new concepts, such as botanical medicine, natural medicine and chemical medicine. Pharmacology focuses on the pharmacokinetics, pharmacology (mechanism), clinical application and adverse reactions of some typical chemical drugs, including pharmacokinetics and pharmacokinetics, the former is the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs, the latter is the role of drugs on the body and its mechanism or law of action; the focus of pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicines is to illustrate the origin, efficacy, application, and progress of modern pharmacological research, especially the single-flavored Chinese medicines. Pharmacology of Chinese medicine focuses on explaining the origin, efficacy, application and modern pharmacology of Chinese medicines, especially the pharmacological effects of the active parts or active ingredients and their mechanisms. Chinese medicine is different from purely chemically synthesized or natural medicines, which must be combined with the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine to guide the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is a discipline based on the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, there is a course is the pharmacology of proprietary Chinese medicines, this is for the modern pharmacological study of Chinese medicine compound.